I had a terrible thought,
Buzzing in my brain like a fly that got caught,
I thought a very bad thing,
I’m trying to forget it but it’s not happening.
I start to cook, read a book,
Go to bed, can’t get it out of my head.
Since it got caught in my brain,
Yeah the thought is driving me like a runaway train.
I had a terrible thought,
Buzzing in my brain like a fly that got caught,
I thought a very bad thing,
I’m trying to forget it but it’s not happening.
Cut to the quick, it make me sick,
And so upset, can’t think of anything else.
It’s something that I mustn’t do,
But I feel like I want to see it through.
I had a terrible thought,
Buzzing in my brain like a fly that got caught,
I thought a very bad thing,
I’m trying to forget it but it’s not happening.
And it’s a bad very bad thing.
Yeah it’s a bad, very bad thing.
I wonder could I really do it, I don’t know,
I think I could but thinking doesn’t make it so.
Now I’m not sure how to feel, when wrong is right what is real?
I don’t know how this will go.
I had a terrible thought,
buzzing in my brain like a fly that got caught,
I thought a very bad thing,
I’m trying to forget it but it’s not happening.
And it’s a bad very bad thing.
Yeah it’s a bad, very bad thing.
Sudden as a subtle blade, and in a beat a choice is made,
Well, where should it end?
When all you think of every day is slipping off in sweet decay
With that fell, fast, final friend…
I had a terrible thought,
buzzing in my brain like a fly that got caught,
I thought a very bad thing,
I’m trying to forget it but it’s not happening.
credits
from Songs for a troubled mind,
released March 26, 2020
Written by Sara Dylan, featuring Nick Boyle on piano. Produced by Rocky O’Reilly at Start Together Studios.
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